This recipe has two layers of basic vanilla cake, seven minute frosting and a frosting/lemon curd filling. It said to use store bought lemon curd and although I have a basket full of Meyer Lemons, I felt like picking up this jar at Trader Joe's (it is way good and only $2.99).

I just love the Seven Minute Frosting - egg whites, sugar, corn syrup, cream of tartar can turn into magic frosting! This is the second time I made it...and both times missed the part about beating it off the heat (after beating it over a double boiler for 7 minutes) for another 3-5 minutes to cool it down. I just slathered on hot frosting...oops. I also like bringing out the old school plug in mixer! I think there is a 30 year old patina on it!

The lemon curd/frosting filling is covered with coconut. I'm not a fan of shredded coconut so I tend to scrape that part off! :)

Recently, I made the Southern Coconut Cake from Sky-High Cakes. I think a combo of these two cakes would be perfect. Sky-High has a great cake - it is made with cake flour and coconut milk...it is soft and delicious. I do like the addition of lemon curd in this one and the frosting was light. I messed up the Sky-High frosting so I threw on a cream cheese frosting. I think either the seven-minute or cream cheese frosting would be good...and, of course, without those pesky coconut strands (but I think some would balk at that! :)

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Mary, the cake looks great! I'm not sure if blogger sent the other message before telling me there was an error (grr!). Lemon curd makes everything yummier. Btw, how did you think this frosting compared with Dorie's. I liked Dorie's because I didn't think it was too sweet, but boiling the sugar can be pretty dangerous..haha. I was thinking of trying a 7 minute frosting the swiss meringue way, but was afraid it would be too sweet and gooey. At least your frosting didn't disappear or flatten out between the layers!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm looks so good. I'm a sucker for coconut anything. I love how the icing is so high on top. And filled with lemon curd mmmm. I recently made a cake like this but with coconut custard instead of lemon - now I'll have to try lemon! And I definitely won't be leaving off the shredded coconut! ;)

Wow - beautiful cake! I have that on my list to make this week or next - my first! I have collected so many coconut cake recipes, but I like your recipe with the coconut milk. Can't wait - now I REALLY have to make it soon after browsing your blog. Fantastic photos!